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Carsten Wilke

Carsten Wilke is Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at the CEU. He obtained a PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of Cologne and a diploma in Religious Sciences from the École Pratique des Hautes Études of Paris. He has held teaching positions at the College of Jewish Studies Heidelberg, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and the Free University of Brussels, and realized research projects at the CNRS in Paris, the Ashkenazi Community in Mexico City, the Steinheim Institute for German Jewish History in Duisburg, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadelphia, and the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Hamburg. His publications on the intellectual and cultural history of European Jewry study medieval and modern Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian relations, Iberian crypto-Judaism, and nineteenth-century religious modernization.